Sin City

Chapter 12

The mornings in Rutheran Village were always very quiet and peaceful, but the silence this morning broke. First of all, the ground in the entire village began to tremble for no reason. Then the vibration became a powerful shock, this time even the dumbest old man felt something was wrong, so walked out of the house and looked at the end of the street outside the village.

The wind in the mountains was still a little cold, when it blew, even the bravest and strongest hunters shivered involuntarily. They did not feel the temperature to be low, but felt an unbearable chill from the bottom of their hearts, as if there would be an unbearable calamity about to happen. The ground was still shaking, everyone in Rutheran Village walked out of the house and stood still in the open space of the village entrance. From here can be seen smoke billowing in the distance, in the forest, old trees falling, birds already flying high and forced to leave the nest to fly directly into the deep mountains.

A ruthless heavy armored knight rushed out of the forest!

The heavy armor on the entire body that was dark black had over ten steel thorns, with a chest protector carved with a terrifying demon head, the warhorse ridden was also half a meter taller than the king of wild horses the mountain people saw, the horse was covered with heavy armor, and it was covered with heavy armor, the sharp steel spines protruding from its face showed that it was not only used for defense. A giant sword he had hand hung on the left side behind the warhorse, the giant sword was the sword Zhanmadao was frequently encountered, which differed only from this sword a meter longer than an ordinary Zhanmadao, which, and also thicker, so that the weight of this sword was at least a hundred kilograms, the resulting damage was almost unbearable.

The mountain road made of pebbles sounded strongly as it stepped on the hooves of a war horse made of iron. As the iron horse hooves passed by, gravel and earth scattered, leaving a trail of deep holes, until it was immediately visible mud under the pedestal. Behind the knights, there was another group of twenty heavy armored cavalry, then nearly a hundred light cavalry. But his light cavalry also wore well-crafted body-wide gear, and more than half of the cavalry were also equipped with magic arcs that emitted patterns of light, this kind of army was enough to seize Baron Tucker castle, but all of them were rushing towards the small village of Rutheran right now!

Everyone, including the village chief also paled. Hunters are brave, but brave hunters know that they will not be able to fight these well-armed knights. The village chief even saw the unusual signs of an unusually tall knight warhorse. The military experience had unknowingly told itself that only a Construct Knight possessed such a tall warhorse!

The heavily armed knight entered the Rutheran village and pulled the war horse with his wild, so that the large warhorse stood up, its front hooves landed heavily, and it gave rise to two traces of shallow holes formed on the ground. When the warhorse stopped, the hot air from his nose had already flowed into the chest of the village chief. The knight raised his helmet protector, revealing a firm and majestic face. He glanced coldly at the villagers in the square and asked, "Who knows where Elaine lives?"

The villagers looked at each other, there was no woman named Elaine in Rutheran Village. The blacksmith and the village chief thought of something but did not speak. The knight's face became more grim, so eager to speak, the door of the pharmacy not far away suddenly opened, Elaine walked out and asked lightly, "What is Gordon sending you here?"

The knight looked at Elaine, his expression changed suddenly, he jumped down from the warhorse, and landed in front of Elaine like a sturdy mountain, kneeling on one knee, taking off his helmet and revealing his entire face, half-bending his body, he said in a deep voice, "I'm Mordred, former knight of Mr. Gordon, I'm here to pick up the Madam on Master's orders!"

Mordred was wearing dark red colored shorts like a steel needle, although she lowered her head and knelt in front of Elaine, but the aura released from her still did not stop, the entire apothecary shop trembled slightly, the entire pharmacy shop trembled slightly, within its massive body, it seemed like there was a volcano that could erupt at any moment.

Elaine's dress also fluttered, but she did not back down, still standing in place with a calm expression, nodded, and said, "With you here, then I can be relieved."

Mordred grinned and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Madam."

Elaine pulled Richard out from behind her, placed Richard's little hand on Mordred's palm and said, "He's the one Gordon wants the most. Name's Richard..." After a pause, Elaine continued, "...Richard Archimonde."

Mordred looked at little Richard carefully, then closed his hand, touched Richard's small hand lightly and said with a smile, "Mordred is willing to serve you!"

The knight looked at Elaine again, and said, "Mrs, your things are packed, we're leaving now. Mr. Gordon must be dying to see you!"

“I need to take something very important, wait for me.” After Elaine finished speaking, she walked over to the pharmacy shop and closed the door.

At this moment, little Richard was staring at Mordred, and bloodthirsty lion-like knights were also staring at him. The two looked at each other, his little eyes staring into big eyes, after a while Mordred again grinned, not knowing what the reason was.

But his smile froze!

Flames gushed out from every window of the magic apothecary without warning, even blowing up the roof, and the spewed flames shot straight up into the sky over ten meters away! The flame was so fierce and sudden that even Mordred was unaware of it!

Seeing Mordred rushing into the flames, Elaine smiled at him, then she completely turned into fire, caught fire, sublimated, and never left any trace in this world.

Mordred stood still, letting the flames hit his body. Elaine's last smile had been embedded in her mind, a smile so beautiful, so graceful as well as complex.

 Little Richard shouted frantically, kicking and struggling to escape from the arms of the heavy armored knight and trying to rush into the flames. But all his efforts were in vain, and the flame was so huge that the entire apothecary collapsed in the blink of an eye!

Mordred slowly walked out of the ruins and looked at the hysterically crying little Richard. After a moment of silence, she said, "You have a good mother. Come on, I'll take you to see your father."

The sudden change also left the citizens of Rutheran Village dumbfounded, staring blankly at the ruins where the fire was slowly extinguished, and only a wisp of green smoke came out.

The heavy cavalry lined up in rows and slowly left Rutheran Village with Richard. Mordred and the riding warrior stayed behind, he did not bury Elaine's thoughts, as it had completely turned into fire, only a pure and crazy genius could burn himself, so Mordred has a lot of respect for this woman who met just once.

Staring at the ruins, the corner of Mordred's mouth lifted up indistinctly, and said in a voice so low that only she could hear: "This is indeed a woman that matches Master!"

At this moment, a knight rushed to Mordred's side and asked for instructions, "Master, what about the people in this village?"

Mordred looked at the men, women, and children gathered in the square, stroked his iron-hard beard, and said lightly, "It turns out there are many adult men, too, Master definitely doesn't want to see any men living here. So kill them all!"

When he saw the city of Esjan from a distance, Richard only realized that his own father was a very important man.

Located on a faraway peninsula that has a population of over 100,000 people, the city was built according to the shape of the peninsula. Its terrain is the highest in the northwest, stretching in an arc southwards to islands dotted with the Apennine sea of stars. The city in the shape of a long and narrow pathway was like a resting giant beast, crawling quietly between the water and the ceiling. The houses were neat, the streets were well laid out, and the twenty-meter-high city walls weaved to protect the city's residents, the vast land outside the city was full of fertile land, and the city was full of fertile, and the wide River flows through the city into the Apennine Sea, providing an endless source of water for the fertile fields.

There is a hill in Esjan City, and the world-famous Black Rose Castle built on a hill. It is a grand and large complex of buildings, which can easily accommodate 3,000 warriors. The spire stands upright at every corner, even a large permanent manjanik is placed that overlooks the city, but the panjanik has never been used since the Black Rose Castle was built, although there are enemies who attack the city of Eshan, the city of Eshan, at most his enemies would be directly subverted after their footsteps touched the walls of Esjan city.

The castle is a defensive weapon, and the Black Rose Castle is designed in an extreme way, throughout the composite fortress-type building with the castle inside the castle as its core, the castle is, wooden firing platforms can be ejected on city walls or arrow towers at any time. The tunnel-like city gate had five layers of sturdy gates erected at a depth of ten meters, and there were many arrangements that could not be seen directly by the eyes. When the Black Rose Castle was built, it was claimed that it only required a thousand qualified soldiers to guard it, with sufficient supplies, it was almost impossible to destroy it at all.

Many tourists with different destinations have visited the city in various capacities, as they watched the monsters that occupied the highest heights of the city, they inevitably agreed with the excessive praise to the designer of the Black Rose Castle. A noble military strategist who did not wish to be named was invited to the castle as a guest. After returning, he performed calculations on the defense system he saw. The conclusion was that even though he used a complete army of 50,000 troops and heavy siege equipment to capture this castle, it still had to bear a high risk.

It was just that he had never really experienced the test of war, because the previous owners of the ancient castle did not like defense, even if their troops were at a very disadvantageous position, he said, they were more willing to choose boundless plains or deep mountains as battlegrounds, and use mobile warfare to destroy enemies, but they always won in the end.

Even in the entire Sacred Alliance, the madness of the Archimonde family was already well-known.

No one wanted to fight a madman, moreover there would always be one or even several geniuses born into this crazy family at any given time. The Archimonde's greatest enemy, Duke Joseph of the Lennon Peninsula, once said emotionally that when madmen and geniuses are combined, the damage they can inflict will multiply.

As he said this, Duke Joseph's 20,000 main force had just been defeated by the Archimonde's 10,000 elites in a long and brutal battle, and only less than 2,000 troops had managed to escape. Duke Joseph's combat strength was completely unusual, and it always ranked first in the entire continent.